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SOCIAL SCIENCES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES: COOPERATION, CULTURES, SOCIETIES AND AFRICAN PROCESSES OF DIGITALISATION SOUTH OF THE SAHARA.
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Introduction
The of Intercontinental Alliance for Urban Studies (AIEU) holds this first international Congress in the city of Granada (Spain), and offers a forum for debate on the results of research on digitisation and cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa from the Social Sciences and Humanities.
The theme of this first international edition of the Congress is: “Social Sciences and Digital Humanities: Cooperation, Cultures, Societies and African Processes of Digitisation South of the Sahara”, with the aim of contributing to cooperation with Africa in terms of respect for the cultures, knowledge and decisions of African peoples.
The inspiration for this first international conference comes from the R&D&I project “Digital transition, social cohesion and gender equality: mobile banking and women’s digital empowerment in Africa” (DIGITALFEM), reference: TED2021-130586B-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR”. Also the recent boost to the Unit of Excellence in Women’s and Gender Studies (University Institute for Research in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Granada).
Please come and join us in Granada for the Conference on the website: https://digitaldiverse.es/
SYNOPSIS
Since the end of the 20th century and clearly so far in the 21st century, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have not only expanded exponentially in the world but also impacted numerous spheres of people’s lives. The African continent is experiencing a major digital acceleration at many levels, interconnecting local and global structures, processes and actors/actors, thus identifying multiple challenges and opportunities for Africa’s digital and socio-economic transformation. Some of these opportunities and challenges would be linked to the very development and socio-cultural compatibility for socio-economic growth in this region of the world, as the access of African populations to digital services (financial, business and marketing, media and resources) is not necessarily to their benefit, even if they offer potentially viable, effective and relevant alternatives for self-employment, among others. European and Spanish governmental economic and cooperation strategies (EU-African Union 2020 Summit, EU-Africa 2020 Business Forum, Agenda España Digital 2025, Agenda 2030, etc.) are in tune with the options offered by technological digitalisation in terms of access to information, contacts, innovation and opportunities in order to generate greater equality and development.
This Congress aims at joint, inter and multidisciplinary reflection, through the exhibition and discussion of quality research related to the phenomenon of digital transition in Sub-Saharan Africa, from the Social Sciences and Humanities, with the challenges it poses for today’s global digital society, through thematic symposia on digitisation and empowerment, for example, in the cases of Guinea Bissau and Tanzania; the social and gender digital divide; socio-cultural compatibility and digitisation processes; digitisation and cooperation as avenues for socio-economic growth and development; inequalities and public policies for digitisation in African countries; digitisation processes in relation to business and trade activities.
Participation in the symposia will be virtual and recorded with translation into Spanish, English or Portuguese.
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WHO IS ORGANISING IT?
It is organised by the Red Intercontinental de Estudios Urbanos and the research group AFRICAInEs: studies and research applied to development.
Organised by:
- Director: Roser Manzanera Ruiz (University of Granada)
Scientific Committee:
- Dr. Roser Manzanera-Ruiz, University of Granada.
- Dr. Fernando Carrión, FLACSO, Ecuador.
- Dr. M. Soledad Vieitez Cerdeño, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Albert Roca, GESA.
- Dr. Rosemary Mwaipopo, University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
- Dr. Wenceslao Martinez Rosales, CICODE, University of Granada
- Dr. François Seck Fall, Laboratoire d’Etude et de Recherche sur l’Economie, les Politiques et les Systèmes Sociaux, Université de Toulouse (France)
- Dr. Amalia Morales Villena, University of Granada
- Dr. Carlos Oya, School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (UK)
- Dr. Ignacio Tamayo Alvarez, University of Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Patricia García Spin, University of Granada
Academic Committee:
- Dr. Ane Sesma Gracia, University of Granada
- Dr. Olga M.M. Namasembe, Women for Africa Foundation
- Dr. Teresa Cunha, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
- Dr. Ezra Nhampoca, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique)
- Dr. François Seck Fall, Laboratoire d’Etude et de Recherche sur l’Economie, les Politiques et les Systèmes Sociaux, Université de Toulouse (France)
- Doctoral candidate Estefanía Cano Belén, University of Granada (Spain)
- Doctoral candidate Josefa Sánchez Contreras, University of Granada (Spain)
- Doctoral candidate Xènia Domínguez, University of Granada
- Doctoral student Giulia Sensini, Andalusian Solidarity Association for Development (ASAD)
Symposium:
- Economies, digitalisation and empowerment (Coordinator: Ane Sesma)
- Inclusion and social and gender digital divide (Coordinated by: Estefanía Cano)
- Digitalisation, cooperation and post-development (Coordinated by: Xènia Domínguez)
- Mobile money and digital financial strategies (Coordinated by: François Seck Fall)
- Business and trade in a digital key (Coordinator: Olga Namasembe)
- Sustainable and equitable digitalisation and activisms (Coordinator: Ezra Nhampoca)
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